Serena Williams: “I Feel Like it’s Therapy for me”

Everyone in this world has a personal and a professional life. Our lives do not just revolve around those two sectors, in fact, it is much beyond those two fields. Also, we tend to behave differently with a different group of people. Similarly, the 23-time Grand Slam champion, Serena Williams, also reflects a different behaviour in different aspects of her life. Despite becoming a mother and getting married she carries herself with the same attitude which she bore all her life. 

She opened up about her timidness when she comes across people. “I’m an extremely shy individual, so whenever I meet people I kind of freeze up or I don’t really talk”, said Serena. “I don’t know how that comes across, but I actually kind of…I always try to stay in the background. Somehow people are always putting me in the front, but I’m always the one that’s like walking in the back or behind people. So, no, it’s not my thing, actually”.

Williams also shared her relationship with technology. She mentioned her dependency on her phone. Williams feels that writing helps her to overcome the weird sensations to some extent. “ I’m definitely not a diary person. I think that was really popular in the ’80s, but lately, I haven’t… if something odd happens to me or if something traumatic happens to me I’ve been writing it down. I feel like it’s a little therapy for me. Now it’s a little more digital, so it’s definitely not handwritten. I think my hand would cramp. As a tennis player, every day we have a press conference or we have to talk a little bit about our lives. I’m an open person, an open individual. So there are definitely some things I had pinned down and I think would be fun”, Williams said.